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Let’s Not Lose Sight of the Goals

By BILL KRAMER I love Daniel Schorr. I’ve never met him in person, but I love his voice and his insights about politics on NPR’s Weekend Edition. But this morning I was disappointed. After listening to his comments on the... Read More...

Published Sun, Oct 04 2009 10:24 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Reform, Policy/Politics, Obama

Olberman, hysterical hypocrisy expose

By Matthew Holt A really fun piece from Keith Olbermann as he shows how the entire Gang of Six and more voted for fully socialized flood insurance and yet seem to have a problem with an independent government run public... Read More...

Published Sun, Oct 04 2009 1:21 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Policy/Politics, Matthew Holt, Policy

JSK (national treasure) on data liquidity, and how it fits into Health 2.0

By Matthew Holt Given that she taught me most of what I know about health IT I don’t know why I ever need reminding about how great Jane Sarasohn-Kahn is at keeping her finger on the pulse of health care,... Read More...

Published Sat, Oct 03 2009 1:45 PM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Technology, Health 2.0, Matthew Holt, Policy, Jane Sarasohn-Kahn

Sometimes It’s Better Not to be Ranked #1

By KATHLEEN M. BOOZANG The Chronicle of Philanthropy lead off its annual executive compensation story with the headline that “Nearly three in 10 of the leaders of the nation’s biggest charities and foundations have taken pay cuts in the past... Read More...

Published Fri, Oct 02 2009 1:27 PM by The Health Care Blog

Two big deals in Health 2.0

By Matthew Holt John Halamka writes about the small but important meeting this week at Harvard Medical School hosted by Zak Kohane and Ken Mandl. Because of the impending arrival of about 1,000 of my best friends next week at... Read More...

Published Fri, Oct 02 2009 12:37 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Technology, Health 2.0

Carrot or Stick? Should Patient Decision Aids Be Rewarded or Required?

By DON KEMPER Should we incent or require providers to prescribe patient decision aids? Should we incent or require consumers to use patient decision aids? Overtreatment is the most celebrated cause of runaway health care costs, but we shouldn’t blame...

Published Thu, Oct 01 2009 6:35 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Costs, Physicians, Patients

Can Social Media Save Healthcare Reform?

By Daniel Palestrant Daniel Palestrant is the Founder & CEO of Sermo, the largest online physician community, and a friend of THCB’s from the Health 2.0 world. Lately Dan has been seen on cable TV representing the 110K+ Sermo members... Read More...

Published Thu, Oct 01 2009 5:50 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Technology, Reform, Policy/Politics, Physicians, Sermo

The Health 2.0 Accelerator is really gunning it...

By Matthew Holt The Health 2.0 Accelerator was a glimmer in the eye of Commerce.net’s Marty Tenenbaum late in 2007. But under the dedicated leadership of Julie Murchinson and Aaron Apodaca, something quite remarkable is happening. The Accelerator is an...

Published Thu, Oct 01 2009 1:41 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Technology, Health 2.0

I was largely in favor of Swiss-style health care...

By Matthew Holt until I found out that the people who the NY Times says are really in favor of it are Bill O'Reilly and Regina Herzlinger… Actually I’m kidding. I knew Regi says she likes it, and Maggie Mahar... Read More...

Published Thu, Oct 01 2009 1:07 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Policy/Politics, Policy, Health Plans

Health Reform and Medicare: Part I

By THOMAS L. GREANEY Here’s a pop quiz on health reform: Which prominent Republican said the following: And if you don’t [oppose this health care legislation] and if I don’t do it, one of these days you and I are... Read More...

Published Wed, Sep 30 2009 11:04 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Reform, Medicare, Public Option

Swine flu, uninsurance and not-so fondly remembering the teenage years

By Matthew Holt We get sent lots of rants to our tips line, most of which we ignore in an amused jaundiced way. But this one I found very amusing. I'm not sure it's 100% accurate, but it is very... Read More...

Published Wed, Sep 30 2009 7:18 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Health Plans

Medicare Policy Might Discourage Proper Care for Hospital-Acquired Infections

By MAYA SEQUEIRA Medicare's recent policy of refusing to pay hospitals' additional costs to treat hospital-acquired infections fails to adequately incentivize prevention and proper treatment of these complications, associated with 99,000 deaths...

Published Tue, Sep 29 2009 10:50 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Medicare, Quality

To Change Health Care, Change Diabetes.

By DANA HAZA As we work to change health care in America, we must recognize the need to dramatically change diabetes. Twenty-four million Americans have diabetes at a cost to our nation of an estimated $218 billion for diabetes and... Read More...

Published Tue, Sep 29 2009 10:30 AM by The Health Care Blog

Filed under: Quality, prevention, Chronic conditions

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